Podcasts
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• Recorded Oct 3, 2012An entire generation knows Andrew McCarthy as Blaine McDonough from the 1986 John Hughes film Pretty in Pink. For the last decade, McCarthy has been building a formidable reputation in the world of travel writing, including two Lowell Thomas… more
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• Recorded Oct 2, 2012In The Price of Inequality, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz offers a plan for a more just and prosperous future. With the top one percent of Americans controlling an estimated 40 percent of the country’s wealth, Stiglitz argues that… more
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Musician, actor, producer, and activist Wyclef Jean was born and raised in Haiti and moved with his family to New York when he was nine years old, learning English from American rap music and later forming the hip hop group The Fugees with Lauryn… more
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• Recorded Sep 29, 2012(This recording contains explicit content) In Junot Díaz's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, a Dominican American family haunted by an ancient curse is doomed to prison, torture, and ill-starred love. Like… more
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Author, social critic, and political activist Naomi Wolf launched a new wave of feminism with her landmark first book, The Beauty Myth , which challenged the cosmetics industry and the marketing of unrealistic standards of beauty. The New York… more
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• Recorded Sep 21, 2012 Explicit Content(This recording contains explicit content) "Not for the fainthearted" ( Sunday Times ), Irvine Welsh's subterranean worlds are created with eloquent obscenity. He shot to fame with his first novel, Trainspotting , a dark comic portrait of the… more
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• Recorded Sep 20, 2012Senior legal analyst at CNN and a New Yorker staff writer, Jeffrey Toobin is known for his elegant political analyses and legal erudition about our most provocative and high profile cases, including his Emmy Award-winning coverage of the Eliàn… more
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• Recorded Sep 19, 2012Co-creators of the comic art series Love and Rockets , Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez have been likened in the Times of London and elsewhere as “the graphic equivalent to the fabulism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel laureate.” A… more
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• Recorded Sep 15, 2012Actor and producer Tony Danza achieved small-screen fame with his portrayals of dimwitted but lovable cab driver Tony Banta in Taxi and as live-in housekeeper and single dad Tony Micelli on the long-running sitcom Who's the Boss? . He earned an… more
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Tariq Ramadan is one of the leading scholars of Islam in the Western world and a professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford University. Deemed a "Muslim Martin Luther" by Paul Donnelly of the Washington Post , Ramadan was barred from… more
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• Recorded Sep 13, 2012In The Silenced Majority , grassroots journalism pioneers Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan show the power of ordinary people to change their media. The host and executive producer of Democracy Now! , an award-winning independent news program… more
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Paul Auster reenergized contemporary experimental literature with his 1986 New York Trilogy , a trio of postmodern, labyrinthine meta-detective novellas where "each detail, each small revelation must be attended to as significant. And such… more
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In 46 seasons at Penn State, legendary football coach Joe Paterno won 409 games—more than any other coach in the history of college football—led five teams to undefeated, untied seasons, won two national championships, and demanded academic… more
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• Recorded Aug 2, 2012Celebrated investigative reporting team Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele have worked together for nearly 40 years, first at the Philadelphia Inquirer (1971-1997), then at Time magazine (1997–2006), and now at Vanity Fair since 2006. The… more
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Irish novelist and actress Tana French won the 2007 Edgar Award for her New York Times bestselling debut novel In the Woods . "Drawn by the grim nature of her plot and the lyrical ferocity of her writing, even smart people who should know better… more
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• Recorded Jul 24, 2012A senior correspondent and former Baghdad bureau chief for the Washington Post , Rajiv Chandrasekaran is the author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City, “a devastating indictment of the post-invasion failures of the Bush administration” (… more
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• Recorded Jul 19, 2012 Explicit Content(This podcast contains explicit content.) Acclaimed for his in-depth and engaging cultural studies, the novelist Kurt Andersen is the host of the Peabody Award-winning public radio program Studio 360 and a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, New… more
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In the alternate history presented in Stephen Carter's new novel, President Abraham Lincoln survives the assassination attempt at Ford’s Theatre. Capturing the dramatic emotional tenor of the post-Civil War United States, Carter explores the… more
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Chris Cleave's debut novel, Incendiary —in which a grieving mother pens a raw, pleading letter to Osama bin Laden in the wake of a London terrorist attack—received a 2006 Somerset Maugham Award and was adapted into a film starring Michelle… more
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(This podcast contains explicit content.) Crafted with humor and heart, Jennifer Weiner's novels feature relatable characters that face real issues—from complex relationships and careers to complicated family dynamics. She is the author of eight… more
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